Some Historic Deepsky Object Catalogs

Some Historic Deepsky Object Catalogs

Certainly, the most outstanding historical Deep Sky Object catalog is the

Messier Catalog, which is also the

subject of this online database.

Here we give links to some of the other early Deep Sky Object catalogs,

historically before and contemporary to Messier’s, but all before

Herschel’s great survey.


We would like to include more of the historic catalogs of “nebulous objects”

mentioned in our

History of Deepsky Discovery here,

especially Koehler’s catalog of 20.

Also, if you know of further historic Deep Sky catalogs (especially if suited

for amateur observing or “work-thru”) please

email me.


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